Importance Palliative care is a patient-centered approach associated with improvements in
quality of life; however, results regarding its association with a survival benefit have been …

Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis has an uncertain and rapid trajectory after
diagnosis. Palliative care is rarely utilized, although both patients and caregivers experience …

Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment), involving more than
4000 patients, documented “substantial shortcomings in care for seriously ill hospitalized …

Patients with chronic lung diseases suffer higher symptom burden, lower quality of life, and
greater social isolation compared with patients with other diagnoses, such as cancer. These …

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18: e70–e76© 2011 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Palliative care focuses on the physical, spiritual …

Initiatives to improve end-of-life care in intensive care units face several important barriers.
These include inflated expectations for critical care therapies, which are shared by many …

Objectives: To describe unique features of neurocritical illness that are relevant to provision
of high-quality palliative care; to discuss key prognostic aids and their limitations for …

Background: Large gaps in the delivery of palliative care services exist in the outpatient
setting, where there is a failure to address goals of care and to plan for and treat predictable …

Palliative care consultations for patients with life-threatening illnesses provide benefits for
the patients and their families as well as for the health care team. Patients have better quality …

Objective: To describe models used in successful clinical initiatives to improve the quality of
palliative care in critical care settings. Data Sources: We searched the MEDLINE database …